I’ve been perusing the #Dolmenwood books I received recently, and wow have my RPG preferences strongly shifted since I backed this Kickstarter.
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I’ve been perusing the #Dolmenwood books I received recently, and wow have my RPG preferences strongly shifted since I backed this Kickstarter. I’m so profoundly uninterested these days in a setting where monarchies and Law are framed as inherently good, while magic-using women living alone in the woods (and Chaos) are inherently evil. Kind of hoping that there is something salvageable out of these books because they are now taking up a bunch of space on my shelves
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I’ve been perusing the #Dolmenwood books I received recently, and wow have my RPG preferences strongly shifted since I backed this Kickstarter. I’m so profoundly uninterested these days in a setting where monarchies and Law are framed as inherently good, while magic-using women living alone in the woods (and Chaos) are inherently evil. Kind of hoping that there is something salvageable out of these books because they are now taking up a bunch of space on my shelves
@bwebster
I'm not sure what a good alternative is, but I'm not a big fan of monarchies-as-good-guys either.I have a setting with guilds being a nuisance, but it's no better. Maybe the only solution is to lack large power structures which must be accepted as good?
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@bwebster
I'm not sure what a good alternative is, but I'm not a big fan of monarchies-as-good-guys either.I have a setting with guilds being a nuisance, but it's no better. Maybe the only solution is to lack large power structures which must be accepted as good?
@malin it’s rare in Fantasy, particularly TTRPGs (fantasy novels are getting a lot better with it these days). I can’t think of any explicitly anti-monarchy fantasy TTRPG settings. Glorantha maybe gets a shout out for being anti-imperial, and that setting feels flexible enough to support an anarchist-adjacent campaign, but it’s still not really what I’m looking for. I gave up and just wrote my own setting, but would still love to hear any recommendations for published settings that support this
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@malin it’s rare in Fantasy, particularly TTRPGs (fantasy novels are getting a lot better with it these days). I can’t think of any explicitly anti-monarchy fantasy TTRPG settings. Glorantha maybe gets a shout out for being anti-imperial, and that setting feels flexible enough to support an anarchist-adjacent campaign, but it’s still not really what I’m looking for. I gave up and just wrote my own setting, but would still love to hear any recommendations for published settings that support this
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@alxd @malin appreciate the recc, but anything Brando Sando is an absolute no go for me. 10% of money he earns goes to support the Mormon church and directly funds efforts to kill queer people like me.
Fantasy novels have a ton of good anti authoritarian/monarchical stuff though: Earthsea, Malazan, The Singing Hills Cycle, The Burning Kingdoms, The Raven Tower, The Water Outlaws, Spear (Nicola Griffith), Blacktongue Theif/Daughters War, just from the top of my head
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@Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis @alxd @malin never heard of them but they seem cool, thanks for the recommendation. They don’t quite have the type of fantasy I’m looking for though, at least not currently
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@Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis @alxd @malin never heard of them but they seem cool, thanks for the recommendation. They don’t quite have the type of fantasy I’m looking for though, at least not currently
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I’ve been perusing the #Dolmenwood books I received recently, and wow have my RPG preferences strongly shifted since I backed this Kickstarter. I’m so profoundly uninterested these days in a setting where monarchies and Law are framed as inherently good, while magic-using women living alone in the woods (and Chaos) are inherently evil. Kind of hoping that there is something salvageable out of these books because they are now taking up a bunch of space on my shelves
A Witches campaign looks like it could be fun, with the Drune and all the nobles as obvious antagonists. Would require some player buy-in, but I think that could make for a good time.
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A Witches campaign looks like it could be fun, with the Drune and all the nobles as obvious antagonists. Would require some player buy-in, but I think that could make for a good time.
This is, also, promising that there might be something in here for me. Always happy to bend and play around with the explicitly stated words of a setting, but if I’m using someone else’s world, I usually want it to be more interesting than something I can come up with (edit: alt text)
